Venture Fund Member Profile

Founded in 2000, Lux Capital is a team of entrepreneurs and investors focused on building and backing emerging technology companies to solve global challenges in energy, technology and healthcare.

We invest in what matters, launching companies that can change the world while offering the potential for extraordinary investment returns: from cancer therapies, to petroleum replacements, to new vaccines. We are indifferent to short-term vicissitudes and market volatility, and long on human ingenuity. The ingredients we help assemble are big breakthroughs, passionate entrepreneurs, transformative technologies, and massive markets.

Lux founded strategic holdings in media, research and policy as proprietary sources of intelligence, access and influence ensuring that our portfolio companies are better connected, have deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competition.

Peter HebertManaging PartnerLux Capital

Peter is Co-Founder of Lux Capital and focuses on investments in technology and energy. Peter began his career at Lehman Brothers, where he worked in the Firm's top-ranked Equity Research group. In 2000, he co-founded Lux Capital. In 2003, Peter led the spin-off of Lux Research. As founding CEO, he helped build Lux Research into the leading emerging technology research firm. Peter launched the publicly-listed Lux Nanotech Index (AMEX: LUXNI) and the $150 million PowerShares Lux Nanotech Portfolio (NYSE: PXN).

Peter manages Lux Capital's investments in Accelergy, Angstrom Publishing, Auris, Everspin Technologies, G2X Energy, Gridco Systems, Lux Research, Luxtera, Matterport, SiBEAM (acquired by NASDAQ: SIMG), and Transphorm. He was a Chancellor's Scholar and graduated cum laude from Syracuse University's Newhouse School. Peter was the Founding President of Syracuse's first venture organization, Future Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs. He has been an invited guest on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and lecturer and panelist at Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, Yale, and the National Science Foundation. Peter also co-founded Young Wall Street, a charitable organization supporting youth-related causes in New York City, and serves as a mentor to Imagine K12 in Palo Alto.

Representative Investments

AltspaceVR is a software company building the social platform for virtual reality. With AltspaceVR, user connect in virtual spaces to create shared experiences around anything on the web.

Accelergy is a global leader in producing direct replacement, low carbon synthetic transportation fuels at less cost both to the environment and to customers. Accelergy uses domestic resources such as natural gas, biomass and coal to produce cost-competitive fuels with a reduced CO2 footprint compared to traditional petroleum-based fuels. Accelergy's unique process schemes and proprietary catalysts can be used within existing infrastructures.

Aptible is a cloud-based platform designed to automate HIPAA compliance for medical and healthcare companies. Aptible handles the chore of documenting infrastructure so mobile health companies can focus on doing what they love to do writing code

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